Blast occurs near Defence Ministry building in Bab Sharqi district of the capital.

A Royal Navy explosives team is at the building site where the ordnance was discovered, with homes evacuated and an emergency centre set up.

A bomb outside a Defense Ministry building in the Syrian capital has killed one soldier and wounded about a dozen other people.

A controlled detonation has been carried out on a large World War Two bomb found at a building site. More than 1,200 homes were evacuated in the Southway area of Plymouth after the device was found on ...

Watch: Moment of explosion as WW2 bomb disarmed in Plymouth The British Broadcasting Corporation A controlled detonation has been carried out on a large World War Two bomb found at a building site.